Body Issues
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This Is Who I Am: Our Beauty in All Shapes and Sizes
by Rosanne Olson  Publisher Comments Fifty-four portraits of women that are striking, beautiful, and real. The bodies in this book have been shaped by the full sweep of the feminine experience. They belong to 54 women from all over the country, ages 19 to 95, of all sizes and shapes...
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The Breast Book: An Intimate and Curious History
by Maura Spiegel Publisher Comments Introducing the chunky, obsessive book of Breasts. Using over 600 illustrations and photographs, The Breast Bookis about changing social mores and attitudes, from classical Greek statuary to the Victorian corset to Twiggy to Pamela Lee. The Breast Bookis...
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Rapunzel's Daughters: What Women's Hair Tells Us about Women's Lives
by Rose Weitz Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-255) and index....
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Body Wars: Making Peace with Women's Bodies: An Activist's Guide
by Margo Maine Publisher Comments In this ground-breaking study, Margo Maine declares war on a culture that dismisses, devalues, and disempowers women by making them hate their own bodies. This book covers issues from dieting and weight prejudice to concepts of beauty and ageism to...
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Killing for Life: The Apocalyptic Narrative of Pro-Life Politics
by Carol Mason Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-240) and index....
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The Good Body
by Eve Ensler Publisher Comments Botox, bulimia, breast implants: Eve Ensler, author of the international sensation The Vagina Monologues, is back, this time to rock our view of what it means to have a “good body.” “In the 1950s,” Eve writes, girls were “...
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Simone Weil: On Politics, Religion and Society (Qualitative Research Methods Series)
by Christopher Frost Publisher Comments Long before postmodern or deconstructionist ideas became current, Simone Weil was concerned with recognizing the absence of consistency and the continual presence of reversals and contradictions in life. She was someone for whom the task of clarifying...
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Locker Room Diaries: The Naked Truth about Women, Body Image, and Re-Imagining the "Perfect" Body
by Leslie Goldman Publisher Comments Often dressed in no more than a towel, author Leslie Goldman spent five years talking with women of all ages, shapes, and sizes about what goes into “shaping” not just their bodies but their body image. From compulsive workouts to daily dates...
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The Male Body: Features, Destinies, Exposures
by Laurence Goldstein Publisher Comments Poets, anthropologists, philosophers, artists, sociologists, and others provide prespectives on the male body....
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The War on Choice: The Right-Wing Attack on Women's Rights and How to Fight Back
by Gloria Feldt Publisher Comments Accessible and impassioned, here is an eye-opening look at the right wing strategy to reverse the gains American women have made over the past 50 years. The War on Choice chronicles the actions being taken at the highest levels of government to turn back...
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The Broken Mirror: Understanding and Treating Body Dysmorphic Disorder
by Katharine Phillips Publisher Comments Jane is an attractive woman in her mid-thirties, tall, thin, and stately. She believes she is breathtakingly ugly. Tormented by what she sees as her huge nose, crooked lip, big jaw, fat buttocks, and tiny breasts, she has not left her house in six years....
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Body packaging :a guide to human sexual display
by Julian Robinson Book News Annotation An examination of costume, sex customs and symbolism from codpieces and penile sheaths to high-heeled shoes and French knickers, uniforms and bondage gear, wedding dresses, tail coats and jeans. Fine illustrations. Robinson, ousted for teaching his...
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The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls
by Joan Jacobs Brumberg Synopsis "Timely and sympathetic . . . a work of impassioned advocacy." --People A hundred years ago, women were lacing themselves into corsets and teaching their daughters to do the same. The ideal of the day, however, was inner beauty: a focus on good deeds and...
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Abortion Under Attack: Women on the Challenges Facing Choice
by Krista Jacob Publisher Comments Addresses a spectrum of personal and social influences affecting legalized abortion today, sharing a diverse range of pro-choice writings about such topics as the moral ambiguities of pro-life supporters, the inherent dangers of restricting medical care,...
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Beyond Choice: Reproductive Freedom in the 21st Century
by Alexander Sanger Publisher Comments Thirty years after Roe v. Wade, the argument between "pro-choicers" and "pro-lifers" has reached stalemate. Pro-choice arguments haven't persuaded a comfortable majority that legal abortion is vital to our society, nor addressed our moral qualms. Younger...
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Beyond Choice: Reproductive Freedom in the 21st Century
by Alexander Sanger Publisher Comments Thirty years after Roe v. Wade, the argument between "pro-choicers" and "pro-lifers" has reached stalemate. Pro-choice arguments haven't persuaded a comfortable majority that legal abortion is vital to our society, nor addressed our moral qualms. Younger...
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Minding the Body
by Patricia Foster Publisher Comments A mulitcultural anthology of fiction and non-fiction literary narratives which addresses the psychological and political aspects of a woman's body in today's culture. An important and much-needed book for women who seek to understand their bodies and...
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Good Body (04 Edition)
by Eve Ensler Publisher Comments Botox, bulimia, breast implants: Eve Ensler, author of the international sensation The Vagina Monologues, is back, this time to rock our view of what it means to have a “good body.” “In the 1950s,” Eve writes, girls were “...
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The Rejected Body: Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability
by Susan Wendell Publisher Comments 'The Rejected Body is a brilliant and original work that goes beyond the topic of disability and questions the adequacy of feminist theories of embodiment generally.'--Sandra Lee Bartky, University of Illinois...
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Breasts: Our Most Public Private Parts
by Meema Spadola Book News Annotation From embarrassed early bloomers to the vice-president of the "Itty- Bitty-Titty Committee," a wide variety of women (surgeons, strippers, mothers, daughters, breast cancer survivors, lingerie professionals, teachers, and housewives) reveal what women...
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